The UCIPC funds graduate students to attend a retreat focused on professionalization in the area of international performance and culture. The retreats invite two students from each participating campus to submit an essay or chapter for detailed feedback. Three UCIPC faculty are involved in the week-long intensive event, and one invited faculty member from a campus outside the University of California system gives a keynote lecture. The structure of the retreat is based on the series of highly successful graduate retreats held in Helsinki, Finland. Students work in small group sessions with faculty members. All participants read the submitted papers, present short introductions to their own submission and receive substantial feedback. In addition, the whole group discusses significant new books in the field and watch video/dvd documentation of recent performance work. Discussions also take place concerning career progression, publishing, and the current state of the profession. Student response to these events speaks of a rewarding experience that is of substantial benefit to their careers.

Program UCIPC Graduate Student Retreats, UC Davis, June 2007

Faculty Members
Eng-Beng Lim [SUNY-Purchase College]
Lynette Hunter [UC Davis]
Shannon Steen [UC Berkeley]
Simon Williams [UC Santa Cruz]

9:00-9:30 START Intro to Retreat Chair:Lynette	9:30-10:15 Paper #4 Chair:Simon Paper:Raimondo	9:30-10:15 Paper #8 Chair:Shannon Paper:Heidi	9:30-11:00 Final sum-up and Evaluation
9:30-10:15 Paper #1 Chair:Lynette Paper:Zach	10:30-11:15 Paper #5 Chair:Shannon Paper:Andy	10:30-11:15 Paper #9 Chair:Lynette Paper:Chantal
10:30-11:15 Paper #2 Chair:Simon Paper:Sylvie	11:30-12:15 Paper #6 Chair:Eng-Beng Paper:Darren	11:30-12:15 Paper #10 Chair:Simon Paper:Donovan
11:30-12:15 Paper #3 Chair:Shannon Paper:Jennifer	12:15-1:30 Lunch	12:15-1:30 Lunch
12:15-1:30 Lunch	1:30-2:30 Small Group disc.	1:30-3:00 Reading Group #2 Queering Mestizaje
1:30-3:00 Eng-Beng Lim Keynote	2:30-4:00 Paper #7 Chair:Eng-Beng Paper:Chia-Yi	3:15-4:00 Paper #11 Chair:Eng-Beng Paper:Fei
3:15-4:45 Reading Group #1 Cosmopolitanism		4:15-5:00 Small Group disc.
5:30 Dinner Video/Discussion Chair: Lynette Documenting Performance	5:30 Dinner at Emerson or in town Free Evening	5:30 Davis Evening market, and Dinner at Mustard Seed

Student Papers

Gill
“Virtual and Actual Combats: Antitheatrical Theatrical Training in the US Infantry”

Miller
“The Builders Association: Representing Identity through the Use of Technology”

Gibb
“Theatre and the Social Imaginary in Transitional Los Angeles, 1848-1853″

Genna
“Bush’s Theatre of War: Melodramatic Ghosts and the American Identity”

Shi
“Sights-Sites: Experimenting Genders in Contemporary Chinese Performing Arts”

Sherman
“Inside the Interruption: Brechtian Gest as Tactic”

Blaney
“Gay Activism as Gift: Marriage and Survival as Bondage and the Double Bind”

Seetoo

“En-gendering the Trope of Farewell My Concubine”
Rodriguez
“Mark Taper Forum’s Latino Theatre Initiative Marginal Voices, Mainstream Stages 1992-2004″

Bissonnette
“Cross-casting and Hybrid Identity in Robert Lepage’s Nô”

Caldwell
“The Case of Jack Sydow and Hump Happy”
Retreat Program 2007

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